Posted on 04/30/2017 8:40:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores – climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beach front and overwhelming low-lying cities.
The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some scientists that once-unthinkable outer-range projections of sea rise may turn out to be too conservative. A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.
The potential result: crippled economies, compromised public safety, submerged infrastructure, and a forced retreat from our iconic Pacific coast.
No state has done more than California to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and sea-level rise. But experts say that even if carbon reductions continue, residual warming of the ocean will continue unchecked, breeding surges that will impact the state’s coast and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century
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Good.
Somebody needs to slap them, their needle is stuck!
Doubling down on fake news. The occupation media has to be terminated.
If your in Lodi, you will be under water, you gotta move a little higher into the foothills.
My farm in NorCal is at 3200 feet, I am safe and will be able to go deep sea fishing in the canyons.
“California coast ocean level could fall 10 feet in 70 years.”
Film at 11.
I'm glad my wife was finally able to sell the ranch she'd inherited in California. It was pretty well up in the mountains, but evidently the buyer is going to end up with beach-front property.
Yeah; as a skier I was pretty pissed off that we did not get our new ice age back in the seventies.
I was promised more snow and ice, what I got was less snow (crappy ski conditions) and higher lift ticket prices.
NAH; only in California, cause were special dontcha know.
Governor POTHEAD MOONBEAM told me so.
I own 41 acres on Williamson Valley Road by Buffalo Ranch
Cool.
Surf’s Up!
Well. Then I will buy beachfront in Oregon since it only happens in California.
Excellent idea! And they can put the tracks of the high speed train right on top of the sea wall.
Excellent. Look how we are able to save money for CA! I’ll bet we could come up with other ideas to help them save money...oh wait. They don’t want to save money.
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